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Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2) · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 27 OF 105
Run P1 · Part P (bars 55-64)
239 / 361 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART P
CHORUS 7
16 groovesEHAYP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2) on drums

361 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 7:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
361
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 41-47 and 73-76, and 12 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 31, 39, 40 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-49 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-76 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2)?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2) hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

361 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Through The Fire And Flames (Version 2)?

27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 31, 39, 40 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 361 BARS ANALYSED